58: Zuo Zongtang, right? What did Li Hongzhang say?

"Dr. Qin, please save my child! My Little Girl Ao is truly pitiful!"

The woman burst into tears the moment she stepped into the medical hall.

One might have thought she was attending a funeral.

"Stop."

Qin Jiang quickly stopped the woman, his face sinking as he said, "State your business, don't cry and wail; it's not good to disturb the neighbors."

The woman, however, was able to control herself well. Seeing that Qin Jiang disliked it, she immediately stopped crying.

The netizens in the live stream burst into laughter.

"This woman's crying act is pretty good; she cries when she wants to and stops when she wants to."

"With this kind of flexible acting, isn't she much better than those popular celebrities?"

"What kind of getup is this Xiao Hai'er Ge wearing? Isn't Dr. Qin a Chinese medicine doctor? He shouldn't be good at exorcism, right?"

"That's not necessarily true. In ancient times, Chinese medicine and witchcraft were not separated."

"Don't ask, just watch my Qin Ge in action."

After letting the woman calm down, Qin Jiang asked about their basic situation.

The woman's name was Zhu Hong, and she was from Shujia Village in the suburbs.

Her husband was Shu Chuan, and her son was Shu Ao.

Originally, their lives were peaceful and uneventful.

But then, a month ago, for some unknown reason, her son became possessed!

Zhu Hong's eyes reddened again as she spoke of this.

"My Little Girl Ao used to be very obedient and was even a 'three good student' in school. His teachers in class often praised him."

"But ever since he became possessed, he couldn't go to school anymore, and his appetite changed. He wouldn't eat and was picky."

"He also didn't sleep well in the middle of the night, often having an episode halfway through his sleep."

The more Qin Jiang listened, the stranger he found it.

"Miss Zhu, I don't understand. Is your son possessed or sick?"

Shu Chuan explained from the side, "We took him to the Hospital, and the doctors said they couldn't find anything wrong with him."

"We also invited the village Duan Gong to take a look, but it was no use."

"When the Duan Gong was performing his ritual, my son happened to have an episode and even bit the Duan Gong."

Shu Chuan said, pointing to a man beside him.

It was then that Qin Jiang noticed that the man was dressed in a flamboyant manner, indeed looking like someone not engaged in a proper profession.

The man awkwardly extended his index finger and asked, "Dr. Qin, there shouldn't be any problem with this wound, right? I won't get rabies, will I?"

As soon as the Duan Gong said this, the netizens in the live stream went wild with laughter.

"Hahaha, this Duan Gong looks useless. He even let a Xiao Hai'er Ge bite him while performing a ritual."

"Help, why is my brain automatically picturing the Xiao Hai'er Ge biting his hand!"

"This Duan Gong is not only bad at magic but also has no scientific common sense; he's actually worried about getting rabies."

"The Duan Gong looking for Dr. Qin for treatment, isn't this like an immortal seeking treatment from a mortal?"

"To break down feudal superstitions, it has to be my Xiao Hai'er Ge."

Netizens generally have a higher level of education, so they have always been skeptical of things like Duan Gong and spirit mediums.

So, seeing the Duan Gong suffer a loss at the hands of the Xiao Hai'er Ge, everyone laughed heartily.

Qin Jiang glanced at the Duan Gong's index finger.

Goodness, it was bitten quite hard.

A large piece of flesh had already turned purple, indicating that this piece of flesh was close to necrosis.

Moreover, half of the Duan Gong's fingernail had been bitten off.

One could imagine how crazy Shu Ao was at that time.

No wonder he had to be brought in tied with a rope.

"This wound of yours might get severely infected. You probably won't get rabies. I have some alcohol here; you can use it to disinfect yourself."

With the diagnosis, the Duan Gong felt much more at ease.

He was just afraid of not making money and then losing his life.

While the Duan Gong went to disinfect himself, Qin Jiang pointed at the Little Girl and asked, "Why is he dressed like that?"

Zhu Hong explained, "The Duan Gong said that my Little Girl Ao was going crazy because he must have been possessed by a ghost."

"Ghosts aren't used to wearing the clothes modern people wear, so they get angry and irritable."

"But if we change into clothes from their dynasty, the ghost will feel much better, won't get angry, and their emotions will stabilize."

Qin Jiang was stunned by what he heard.

"There's such a saying?"

Perhaps feeling his profession was challenged, the Duan Gong emphasized while disinfecting himself.

"Yes, of course, there is such a saying."

"Think about it, if you died and, after several hundred years, possessed a descendant's body."

"But then you found that the descendant's clothes were just two pieces of cloth, wouldn't you get angry?"

Qin Jiang fell silent.

This Duan Gong has quite an imagination.

"How do you know that our descendants' clothes will only be two pieces of cloth?"

The Duan Gong said confidently, "Does that even need thinking? Look at the streets, aren't those girls wearing less and less?"

"And those live streams on phones, look at those Streamer; how much fabric do they have? It's barely holding on."

"In our village, only sows would expose so much skin."

The Duan Gong's words caused a stir among the netizens in the live stream.

"Well said! I didn't expect the Duan Gong, though superstitious, to have such righteous views!"

"I mocked him before; I'm sorry, I was wrong, I apologize to him."

"To be honest, brothers, I've long been displeased with this kind of social atmosphere. It's time to rectify it!"

"Upstairs, I advise you not to meddle."

"Good to see, love to see, suggest more people dress like this."

"Don't say that, what the Duan Gong said makes sense. Maybe in a few hundred years, after humans overcome shame, there really won't be much fabric left."

"If this were true, I would indeed be irritable if I time-traveled there. This Duan Gong has something."

Qin Jiang finally understood why professions like Duan Gong and spirit mediums could make money in the countryside.

Never mind if he had real skills; just his eloquence was something ordinary people couldn't possess.

What seemed like fallacy, he could round it back.

The logic was meticulous and unassailable. Wasn't it infuriating?

Helplessly, Qin Jiang could only follow the Duan Gong's words and ask:

"Alright, even if what you say makes sense, and dressing him in clothes for ghost possession can control his emotions, but how do you know what kind of ghost is possessing him?"

The Duan Gong widened his eyes.

"He said it himself."

The Duan Gong took the cloth out of the Little Girl's mouth.

It was as if some strange switch had been flipped.

The Little Girl's face was distorted, his eyes fierce, and he shouted, "I am Zuo Zongtang, killed by your Shu family!"

"I want revenge on your Shu family! I want revenge on all of you!"

"Ow! Ow!"

Qin Jiang: ...

Netizens: ...

Qin Jiang had thought of many possible symptoms the Little Girl might exhibit.

But he had never thought of this one.

Ghost possession was one thing, but to be possessed by such a famous ghost.

Zuo Zongtang, huh.

Then what did Li Hongzhang have to say about this?